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Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 [message #1534 is a reply to message #1533]

Mon, 10 March 2014 15:26

user-rhs
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Pavani,
From the recode manual for DHS5 (which is what was used for the 08/09 Kenya DHS):

Column 1 description (VCAL_1):
Records each of the births and pregnancies during the calendar period, as well as each
episode of contraceptive use and non-use. The following codes are used in column 1:

0 Non-use of contraception
1 Pill
2 IUD
3 Injections
4 Diaphragm
5 Condom
6 Female sterilization
7 Male sterilization
8 Periodic abstinence/rhythm
9 Withdrawal

L Lactational amenorrhea
C Female condom
F Foam and Jelly
α Country-specific method 1
ß Country-specific method 2
τ Country-specific method 3
? Unknown method/missing data
P Pregnancy
T Terminated pregnancy/non-live birth
B Birth
W Other traditional methods
N Norplant
A Abstinence

So I think what you are interested in would be counting the number of "P"s within the string (divide by 9 months or how long pregnancies last), or rather, the first instance of "P" after a series of non-"P" characters. Unfortunately, there is no differentiation between abortion or stillbirth, but I suppose you can always go back to the data and see whether the woman ever had any stillbirths, and match the terminations with stillbirths in order to separate abortions from stillbirths.

Link: https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG4/Recode5DHS_23Augus t2012.pdf, VCAL coding is on page 72 of document (p. 76 of PDF file)

HTH,
RHS

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		number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: pkram on Fri, 07 March 2014 09:33
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 07 March 2014 11:05
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: pkram on Mon, 10 March 2014 10:34
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: Liz-DHS on Mon, 10 March 2014 10:37
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: Liz-DHS on Mon, 10 March 2014 15:06
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: user-rhs on Mon, 10 March 2014 15:26
		Re: number of pregnancies - Kenya DHS 2008 By: user-rhs on Mon, 10 March 2014 15:50
		Re: Alignment of vcal_1 and vcal_2 codes in the data By: Kisaakye on Mon, 12 October 2015 04:20
		Re: Alignment of vcal_1 and vcal_2 codes in the data By: Liz-DHS on Thu, 15 October 2015 15:15
		Re: Alignment of vcal_1 and vcal_2 codes in the data By: Kisaakye on Fri, 16 October 2015 03:08
		Re: Alignment of vcal_1 and vcal_2 codes in the data By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 20 October 2015 16:00
		Re: Alignment of vcal_1 and vcal_2 codes in the data By: Kisaakye on Wed, 21 October 2015 03:34

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